Code Orange. Its the alert level just below Code: Red – and its where Alaska’s remote Cleveland Volcano now sits classified. Cleveland is a 5,675-foot mountain on an uninhabited island 940 miles southwest of Anchorage. Scientists recently noticed that a new lava dome had begun forming, which is a major indicator that the mountain is [...]

The US state department has officially said no to the Keystone pipeline, a controversial 1600-mile long crude oil pipeline that would have run from the Alberta tar sands. The state department denied the permit, saying it had insufficient time to review the plans. President Barack Obama said he was disappointed that the deadline set by [...]

Just less than a week after it started, Chilean President Sebastien Pinera, has announced that the enormous wildfire that has destroyed over 30,000 acres, has been contained. The fire, which was started by a tourist who didn’t properly put out a small fire he made with some cardboard, spread quickly throughout Chile’s Torres del Paine [...]

Kyoto Agreement is a movement by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Changes (UNFCCC) whereby, countries that enter into the agreement bound themselves to reduce their emission of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulphur hexafluoride. Such gases are called greenhouse gases that largely cause global warming. The aim of Kyoto Agreement is basically [...]

Another proud moment for Monsanto; the company has been given the Worst Company of 2011 Award for its numerous crimes against protecting human health and the environment. The award was given by NaturalSociety after thousands of readers voted Monsanto the worst company of 2011. “Considering the fact that Monsanto’s global GMO push has threatened environmental [...]

Global carbon emissions have reached a record 10 billion tons, which is a huge increase of almost 50% in the last twenty years. The study by the Global Carbon Project says a slowdown in emissions during the 2008-09 global financial crisis wasn’t enough to make a positive impact, and the gain in 2011 followed a [...]

Today the World Meteorological Organization released a report that shows 2011 to be the 10th hottest year ever recorded, and they say that human-caused global warming is the reason. “Our science is solid and it proves unequivocally that the world is warming and that this warming is due to human activities,” said WMO Deputy Secretary-General [...]

Mexico is suffering from the most severe drought its seen in 70 years. The drought has killed huge numbers of farm animals, has destroyed innumerable crops and worst of all – is expected to continue into 2012. Over 70% of Mexico, including Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Sonora, Tamaulipas and Zacatecas have been affected by the [...]

Asteroid 2005 YU55 zipped past the Earth at about 29,000 miles per hour tonight (that’s 8 miles a second) at about 6:28 p.m. EST. “It is the first time since 1976 that an object of this size has passed this closely to the Earth. It gives us a great chance to study a near-Earth object [...]

Over ten thousand people ringed the White House this past Sunday to voice their opposition to TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline. There have been numerous White House protests recently, trying to convince President Obama to block the $7 billion pipeline that would take Alberta oilsands crude oil through six American states to Gulf Coast refineries. A [...]